Modem’s gone!
My SmartLink AMR Modem has been lying unused inside my computer for over a year now. It seems that Windows XP does not have support for AMR cards. Even though I downloaded the latest drivers for the modem, they are not signed and do not install properly on WinXP. However it does work on 98 & 2000. But since I use XP primarily, and since my cable modem is used for the bulk of my net surfing, the modem card has been simply gathering dust inside the cabinet.
Today though, Karthik Narayanan asked me to lend it to him as his old modem had burnt out. I was practically glad to get rid of it, though I could use a good internal modem for HyperTerminal. I’m looking out for a PanelLink TV Interface card and if it will work in XP, great! The only problem is that the PTI card & AMR card share the same line, so I can have either PTI or AMR only, but cards are available, supposedly, that combine both the TV interface & the modem to use both slots.